Women in Technology

Women represent 52% of the total European population, but just a minority are start-up entrepreneurs. This makes female entrepreneurial potential an under-exploited source of economic growth and innovation. When establishing and running a business, women face particular challenges such as reconciling business and family duties and accessing finance, training, and business support networks. These challenges discourage many women from pursuing entrepreneurship, especially in the ICT sector, where women are under-represented. Not only is there a growing gap across Europe between the demand and supply for ICT specialists, but women are overwhelmingly under-represented in this sector. When they choose ICT, they face a higher risk of dropping out because of unfavourable working conditions and lack of career progress.

This technology entrepreneurship MOOC, realized in the framework of WITECH Erasmus+ Project bringing together European academic institutions and business start-up hubs, can be offered in ICT MSc programs to diversify them and make them more attractive for women.
It aims to encourage female scientists, engineers, and technologists to develop businesses based on their expertise and everyone to create enterprises to help women enter the STEM sector.

Total workload of the course: 10 hours

This MOOC is provided by Politecnico di Milano, IPAG Business School, Lappeenranta University of Technology, PoliHub, The Digital Hub in collaboration with Technological University Dublin, The Shortcut.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

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